Cricket News

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly is soon expected to get involved with the Indian cricket team - this time in capacity as a coach.

As per an Indian Express report, an unindentified insider from Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) is believed to have had an informal word with new BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya about his keenness to replace Duncan Fletcher, whose term as India coach ended after the World Cup.

The insider also said that Ganguly's achievements make him a strong contender, but Dalmiya didn't assure him of anything. Read More...

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Pakistan knows that it must avoid a 3-0 series defeat against Bangladesh to maintain its seventh place ranking in theReliance ICC ODI Team Rankings when the two sides face off in the first of three One-Day Internationals (ODIs), which starts in Mirpur on Friday.

Pakistan currently lies in seventh spot on 95 ratings points and has a chance to reduce England’s six point advantage by one point if it wins the series 3-0. A 2-1 victory would see Azhar Ali’s men remain on 95 points.

Bangladesh knows that it cannot move up the table irrespective of the result, but a 3-0 whitewash in its favour would see it move to 81 points. In that scenario, the West Indies would move level with Pakistan on 92 points, but the men from the Caribbean would hold a slender 0.13 point advantage when the ratings are calculated beyond the decimal point.

A 2-1 win for Mashrafe Mortaza’s Bangladesh would see the hosts move up three points to 79. Although Pakistan would retain its seventh place position following that series scoreline, it would drop two points to 93. Continue Reading...

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Suresh Raina has posted latest pictures of his grand wedding on his social media accounts. He tied the knot with Priyanka Chowdhary, his childhood friend on Friday in a grand ceremony which saw cricketers like MS Dhoni and Dwayne Bravo in attendance.

The ceremony was attended by mostly close friends and family and few of Raina’s teammates. It was held at a hotel in Delhi. The initial plan was to hold the wedding in Lucknow but the families eventually decided to zero in on the national capital.

Raina had made known his marriage plans to his team-mates during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015
itself. The two families share a close bond as the mothers of the
couple have been close friends. After the wedding Raina will immediately
shift his focus to the IPL, where he plays for Chennai Super Kings.

Friday, April 3, 2015

Indian Premier League 2015 : IPL 2015 auction for teams and players are over and IPL 2015 Teams has seen a lot of changes and players were hand picked by their bosses. ICC Cricket world cup has ended and all eyes are on our own IPL 2015 T20 tournament.

Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan believes his side should start as favourites in the ODI series against Pakistan later this month, and said it was their best chance to beat the side on home soil.

Shakib, who left for Kolkata on Thursday, will be playing the first two games of IPL 2015 for his franchise Kolkata Knight Riders before returning home to play against Pakistan. Pakistan are likely to arrive in mid-April with a new-look side, without the retired Misbah-ul-Haq and Shahid Afridi.

"I will start training from tomorrow," Shakib said. "I will only play two matches in the IPL so the Pakistan series will be on my mind. If I do well in the two matches, that confidence will work in my favour.

"I think we should be starting as favourites to win the ODI series against Pakistan. I think this is our best chance to win against Pakistan. Everyone in the team believes so, too. We have proved that we can beat any team at home. If we play our best cricket, we can do well against any side. We beat New Zealand seven times, and they are the World Cup runners-up." Read More Stories....

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Mahela Jayawardene, who retired from ODIs after the World Cup, was one of the finest batsmen to come through the highly competitive school cricket set up.

Colombo: Former Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene is set to take over a role with the country's cricket administration to develop the infrastructure of the local game at the feeder level.(Sachin Congratulates Sanga, Mahela)
Sports Minister Navin Dissanayake said that Jayawardene, 37, has consented to a futuristic role in restructuring the schools and junior level cricket.(Farewell Sangakkara, Jayawardene)
Jayawardane, who retired from ODIs after the World Cup, was one of the finest batsmen to come through the highly competitive school cricket set up.

He was a brilliant batsman for Nalanda College in Colombo, which has produced so many Sri Lankan internationals, including Sri Lanka's first Test captain Bandula Warnapura.

In the recent years the school system has failed to produce outstanding cricketers to be fed in to the national team.
Introduction of T20 cricket at school level is being seen as a major reason.

In 2007 a similar role was thrust on Aravinda de Silva, a former captain and one of the finest batsmen produced by the country to revamp junior cricket.

Dissanayake, after Sri Lanka's exit from the quarterfinals of the 50-over showpiece event, has set out to revamp the local governing body administration by setting up an interim committee headed by the former Test opening batsman Sidath Wettimuny.

They are to take office from tomorrow.

Dissanayake's father Gamini was instrumental in developing Sri Lanka's local cricket infrastructure, which helped immensely in the island being admitted as a full Test nation in 1981.